Antique Kurdish Kazak Rug 5'5'' x 9'10''

Antique Caucasian Kazak Rug 5’5" x 6’10”. SW Caucasus/Armenia. Boldly patterned, strongly colored, totally geometric, all wool, coarse to moderate weave, medium to long pile, scatter...

Antique Caucasian Sumak Rug 5’8” x 9’10”. A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by colored wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and ot...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Kilim Rug 5'5 x 9'10. This is a Shirvan Kilim long rug with a pattern of wide navy horizontal rows of stepped hexagons enclosing smaller, similar hooked devices. Instead of wide and somewhat narrower bands alternating, the latter have shrunk to thinner ivory lines with stepped crosses as ornaments. Terra cotta, ivory, medium blue, yellow-tan and brown-lack are among the salient tones of this slit tapestry carpet with a generally more restrained palette. At the ends of the broad sections are amusing geometric fillers. The general tonality extends to the dark grey-brown barber pole warps. In their country of origin, these kilims had multiple functions: floor coverings, room dividers, wall decorations, cart covers, indeed any place where a durable, colorful larger scale textile...

Highly unusual design antique colorful Kazak rug. The Caucasus is bounded by the rugged mountains and lush valleys of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. This cultural melting pot was p...